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As Bryan drove, he questioned himself if he was doing the right thing. The last thing he'd want do was bring Nicky into all this. But it was too to turn back now, Nicky already had somewhat of an idea what was going on. He just didn't know how he'd explain all this to Dom.
"You see that tall building up ahead?" Bry asked as he pointed.
"Yeah. You mean the one with the barb wire fencing and twelve foot wall?"
"Yep, that's the one."
The car slowed down as Bryan drove up to the high secruity gates which were guarded by two strong blokes.
"I need to see your indentifcation Sir" The guard in the sunglasses requested.
"Oh, yes ofcourse" Bryan rumaged through his things and pulled out his Agency id tag and showed it to the guard.
The guard nodded his head in approvement. "And who is the man riding with you?"
"This is- " He paused for a second. "Agent Byrne. He's on a special classified case assigned to him by code 3 headquarters directly." He fibbed.
The guard took one last hard look at Bryan and Nicky and then pressed the button that opened the gates letting them enter inside.
Once they were finally through the gates, Bryan let out a sigh of relief and wipped the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand. That was a very tense moment for him, he'd be in a hell load of trouble if they found out he was smuggling an unauthorized personel into The Agency. He was just glad he got through that easy.
"Code 3 headquarters? What is that?" Nicky laughed.
Bryan grinned. "How should I know? I just made up!"
He hurried up and parked the car. Him and Nicky got out.
"We better rush, the sun is going down quickly and Kerry must be starting to worry" He informed.
The two of them walked up to the main enterence. Bryan took out his id card and swiped it in the little slot by the door handle. Soon enough the thick glass door slid open.
"Cool" Nicky murmured to himself.
They stepped into the main room lobby. There was huge water fountain in the center of the room, pumping out gallons of fresh water over a hand crafted stone statue. People were walking around with their cellphones glued to their ears, engaging in important phone calls. And every single one of them worked for The Agency.
"So, are you gonna introduce me to your top secret Agent friends?" Nicky teased.
"No, we don't have time. We have to see Dom immediately. His office is on the ninety-fourth floor, we'll take a lift up there"
"Who's Dom? And why do we have to take a lift?" Nicky felt his nerves rising. "Can't we just take the stairs instead?"
"Dom runs this place, he's the big boss. And nope. The stairs are strictly off limits. They're for emergancy purposes only."
He groaned as he followed Bryan into the small and crowded lift.
The trip to the ninety-fourth floor had been a bit long and rowdy. People were pushing and shoving all over the place cause there was barely any room to even breathe in there. He saw Nicky panic a few times when the lift stopped for a few seconds. When the lift arrived on the ninety-fourth floor the doors came open and the fresh smell of late night coffee filled the air. Soft jazz music played in the background on the speakers. It was just as professional looking as any other floor, with desks, offices, and workers stattered all over the place. Only difference about this floor, is that the boss's office was here. So people here were working seriously hard to get on Dom's good side. Mondays just weren't his days.
They stepped off the lift and Bryan gave Nicky a quick tour around the place.
"This is my office" He pointed out as he stepped into a place filled with empty coffee cups, broken pencils, and work paper laying out everywhere on his desk.
"Looks messy. Why doesn't that surprise me?" Nicky chuckled.
"I know it's a bit off the clean side" Bry laughed. "And that lady right there is our darling Sophie. She's the secretary" He introduced.
"Administrative assistant!" She corrected him. She sat behind her desk with her long dark blonde hair pulled back in a lose yet neat bun, furiously typing away on her computer. Everytime someone called her a secretary she wanted to kill them. She was only twenty-two for godssake and didn't look anything like some old secretary lady.
"May I ask who you are?" Her dark green eyes locked on Nicky.
"Why hello, I'm Agent Byrne. I'm on a special classified case given to me by code 5 headquarters- um, wait a minute, I mean 3. Code 3 headquarters." He smoothly announced.
"Can I see your id?" She went on.
"Can I see yours?" Nicky challenged.
"I think I should call secruity" She suggested as she reached for the phone.
"No Sophie it's ok, he's with me" Bryan assured her.
"I don't care who he's with, he has no id and he doesn't belong here. I don't know how he even got through the gates" Sophie went about dialing for secruity.
Bryan stood by her desk practically begging her to put the phone back down.
"McFadden, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Dom's voice boomed from behind him.
He was totally caught off guard. And he turned his back to face him. "I was, erm.." He mumbled.
"Do you think this is some sort of tourist resort? You think you can bring just anyone here and just show them around!" He started to yell. "Mikey from secruity called me a short while ago saying you entered the building with a man called Agent Byrne. Only problem is that last time I checked we don't have an Agent Byrne. Someone here is lying, and that someone is you!" He accused as he pointed his finger at Bryan's chest.
"Dom, I brought him here cause he knows about what I was talking to you earlier about on the phone" Bryan explained.
"Both of you, get in my office. Now!" Dom sternly directed them.
Bryan and Nicky both exchanged worried glances and walked into Dom's office.
"Sophie, hold my calls. And this time I mean it!" Dom instructed as he closed his office door behind him.
Dom walked and sat into his comfy black leather chair. He reclined the chair back and nicely put his feet on his desk. "McFadden, I'm right about to suspend you from The Agency in two mintues. You better start explaining yourself, fast. You are in deep shite today buddy."
"I lied to you when I said no one else was in the car with me. Nicky there was the whole time. But I didn't mention him cause I didn't want him to be dragged into all this. The reason I hung up on you was cause I saw a man leave a strange package on my front porch" Bryan told.
"It ended up being a bomb. And if Bryan wouldn't off pushed me out the way, I could of possibly been killed" Nicky added. "Also there was a note by the package."
"Where's the note now?" Dom questioned eagerly.
"I picked it up before the bomb went off". He got the note out his jeans and held the it out to him.
Dom then snatched the note up and read through it.
"What does it say?" Bryan asked.
"It's a threat."
"To who?"
"You and Nicky's families"
"But who is the note from?"
"Milo Garcia."
Bryan took a few seconds to let the news sink in. He was right all along, though he really wished he wasn't.
Dom pulled open one of his desk drawers and got out a cigar. He got his lighter from his suit pocket and lit it up. He took one long drag from it, and then slowly let the smoke escape from his lips.
"You said he was in prison! Since when are imates allowed to deliver package bombs to people's houses?" Bryan tried to calm himself down.
"Well after I got off the phone with you, I had Sophie do a background check on Milo and it seems he broke out of prison three days ago with the help from his boys" Dom paused and had another long puff from his cigar.
Nicky sat in silence in his chair. He had no idea who this Milo bloke was, but from the looks of it he didn't seem like he was on the good side.
"But why would be be after my family. I don't even know him!" Nicky broke his silence.
"Who are you engaged to?"
"Georgina Ahern."
"And who is she?"
"She's the irish Prime Minister's daughter"
"Bingo. Milo wants to get to you and then hopefully get to Georgina and make it to her father."
"What does he want with the Prime Minister?" He asked confused.
"He wants to kill him."
Time seemed to freeze and those words replayed over and over in Nicky's head. He had enough with being left in the dark on what was going on.
"Who the the hell is Milo? Why does he want to kill the Prime Minister? And why does Bryan work here!? He asked competely frustrated.
"You haven't told him?" Dom said to Bryan.
Bryan shook his head.
"Fine, then I will. First off, my father founded this very Agency back in 1968. It started off as a cheap police station and over the years it got so damn advanced that even the government couldn't beat it. Our purpose is to protect the innocent lives of civilians under any cost. So if that means losing one Agent's life so you can save a room full of people from dying, then so be it. We basicly only dealed with small crimes and bomb threats. But Milo stepped into the picture around 2001. Word got out of him planning out an assination for Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Reasons why are still unknown. And guess who over heard him dicussing his plans in a pub..." Dom then pointed his cigar at Bryan and continued.
"McFadden was there in the same pub as Milo, accidently listening in on his plans. We had sent in one of our agents undercover to get infomation while easedropping. Our agent got caught and Milo pulled out a gun and was right about to kill our agent until Bryan jumped on him and grabbed his gun. Saving the life of an agent and preventing the assination all together. We took Bryan in and made him an official agent after that. Milo got hard time in prison, but because he came from a rich family the basturd had tons of lawyers. And he was released earlier this year. So he went and planned another murder. Only this time he nearly went through with it. He had set a fire explosive under Westlife's tour bus during concert in Belfast. It was set to go off exactly an hour after the concert. We had Bryan on the case the whole time, so he was there to stop Milo and disable the fire explosive eleven seconds before it went off. So he saved your life, twice." Dom blew smoke out of his mouth and put out his cigar.
"After that, Milo went on the run. And he was the most wanted criminal. He was finally caught a couple months ago and sent back to a high secruity prison. But as I told you before, his boys helped him escape three days ago. So now we have this dangerous criminal roaming the streets of Dublin. And he's looking for two things, 1. He wants to get the irish Prime Minister and 2. He wants to get revenge on Bryan. Which puts his family at the most risk of getting kidnapped by Milo" He finished.
"So what are you gonna do?" Nicky questioned.
"Agent Jameson gave us a tip that Milo's crew was spotted at a down town itailian restraunt. I'm sending you and McFadden down there. You guys will stake outside the restraunt in van and listen in using high technology radios. Now go down to matainence and get Byrne a gun and some other essintial equitment" Dom ordered.
"Yes Sir" Bryan answered as he stood up to leave.
"This means I'm a agent?" Nicky felt his stomach flop in terror and excitement.
"You have no choice, If I let you go, either Milo or one of his men will get to you and kill you. So if you wanna live, you'll do as I say" Dom said.
Bryan and Nicky got up and headed towards the door.
"Also take agent Troy with you" He added.
"But-" Bry started to protest.
"Just do it!"
"Yes Sir" Bryan obeyed as they walked out and closed the door.
"Who is agent Troy?" Nicky asked while they walked over to matainence.
"You'll see." Bryan repiled.
